Afro-Jazz musician Dudu Manhenga has been served a jail term of 18-months after being convicted on her own guilty plea over a March 15 2010, road traffic accident in which a motorcyclist was killed.

CEOAFRICA news desk gathered that the singer had pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and driving with a learner driver’s licence without supervision.

Harare magistrate, Ms Blessing Murwisi sentenced Manhenga to a 24-month jail term but suspended six months on the condition that she does not drive without supervision for the next five years, and a fine of US$300.

Ms Murwisi has considered in passing sentence, the fact that Manhenga was a female offender with four children

The magistrate concluded however that the crime was a clear gross negligence in that she turned right, knocking down a motorcyclist, coupled with the fact that she failed to keep a proper look out of the road ahead and also failed to stop or act reasonably in the event of the accident.